“Whatever the explanation is, it’s unsatisfactory,” said Brook Baker, an access to medicines specialist at Northeastern University. “The bottom line is that there are still a lot of unvaccinated people in poor countries and once again, they are at the back of the line.”

Speaking with Radio Boston’s Tiziana Dearing, Dan Kennedy, journalism professor at Northeastern University and media expert who blogs his industry insights at Media Nation, said the move will further hollow out community journalism.

Russian operatives typically use five D’s: distort, distract, dismiss, deny and dismay, according to Larissa Doroshenko, a postdoctoral teaching associate at Northeastern University.

Evan Selinger is a professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology and an affiliate scholar at Northeastern University’s Center for Law, Innovation, and Creativity.

Harlow Robinson, emeritus professor of history at Northeastern University, remembers visiting the Caves Monastery in 1971 as part of the Yale Russian chorus. “It was one of the most otherworldly experiences I’ve ever had,” he says, recalling the narrow maze of underground cells illuminated only by candlelight.

“The lipid nanoparticles are crucial,” said Mansoor Amiji, a pharmaceutical scientist at Northeastern University. In the microscopic world of cells, mRNA is a bulky molecule that can’t get into cells on its own. Enzymes patrolling the perimeters of cells can also chew up stray mRNA, which often indicates a viral infection.

John C. Messinger Harvard Medical School student who works at Northeastern University School of Law’s Health in Justice Action Lab Rebuilding the Long Island bridge would be one such positive step, a view I share with Leo Beletsky, a professor and faculty director of Northeastern University’s Health in Justice Action Lab.